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by dotBen 13y ago
For a complete picture, perhaps you should add "I don't tend to upvote submissions" , which I would put myself into.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Hooray?
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by dotBen 13y ago
The reason he's right is most attacks on SSH are one-dimensional. In most cases the dimension is IP range - an automated process moves from IP address to IP address examining port 22 for any common vulnerabilities. Rarely do these pro
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by dotBen 13y ago
Yes, we've ( http://wpengine.com ) decided to disable the auto-updates as we want to perform our client account-specific tests before upgrading future versions BUT I welcome the addition of auto-updates given that the majo
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by dotBen 13y ago
one of the founders of WP Engine here - just wanted to thank you for your kind words.
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by dotBen 13y ago
There was a (beta?) video calling feature that existing in the Adobe Air app only, but since most sane people have switched over to the native apps it disappeared. I agree it would be a feature I'd love to see as long as it doesn'
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by dotBen 13y ago
filename was "umn_foursquare_datasets.zip" in case that helps
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by dotBen 13y ago
And to further clarify, the choice use of the word "replaced" in the OP-submitted headline implies Jason was pushed aside or something, which is very much not the case. This is something that has been in the works for some time,
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by dotBen 13y ago
right but they do lock them down. As it says on the parent url, "Due to licensing restrictions, these [GApps] apps cannot come pre-installed with CyanogenMod and must be installed separately." Google heavily licenses GApps. The
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by dotBen 13y ago
The current friction point is loading the CM-OS onto your existing device (rooting, boot loaders, ./adb push, etc) . Offering a self-service tool that does it - either on the phone or via USB is something many will pay $20-$50 for I w
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by dotBen 13y ago
I doubt there's suddenly much appetite for the NSA-authored security guides anymore.
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by dotBen 13y ago
While you are absolutely correct, no one is regression testing the updates potentially coming into their project box/gameserver/etc, even if they perform the apt-get upgrade manually. Might as well set it automatically and sta
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by dotBen 13y ago
"[CloudFlare] is getting 50 to 100 calls per day from customers demanding more answers about the firm's involvement with the U.S. National Security Agency, Prince says. But that's information the company can't give out
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by dotBen 13y ago
Not only is this offensive and misogynistic (and that point well covered here already) but it also sets a clear marker of the slow decline of hack days/hackathons. In addition to being disrespectful to women, this kind of "joke&
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by dotBen 13y ago
Aside from the beautiful maps produced by Stamen, the underlying issue of why we are not able to know how many "big busses" are driving through our streets and where they are going is nacent. The impact they are having on SF'
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Mapping Silicon Valley's Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes(wired.com)
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by dotBen 13y ago
I don't think I understand why CloudFlare was involved - do they provide services to NYT, it isn't clear from the post that they do.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Oh I see. So anyone running a pineapple should alter the code not to respond to any SSID client probe containing the string "pineapple" and just wait for the next probe, and latch on to that as that will result in the MITM'in
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by dotBen 13y ago
I'm confused, does the Pineapple device create an additional SSID called this? Sorry, not familiar with the devices.
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by dotBen 13y ago
For this audience, one would assume this isn't anything new. The next level of 'detail'/risk to consider here is the fact that so many apps, and even browsers, will bind to the "on connection" event of connecti
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by dotBen 13y ago
and possibly bugged. I wouldn't live there without a complete sweep, and probably not even after that.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Ok, I'm going to say it -- I don't get it. The problem I see from the GitHub demo and the discussion here is that you zone out of the "background noise" and focus on the important/out-of-bound/etc sounds. Grea
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by dotBen 13y ago
This story is interesting when the increased price is within the wallet size of the addressable market. A good example of that is coffee - I can buy a $1 cup of crap or I can buy a $6 venti-bs-caramel-late from Starbucks. Wow, you've c
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by dotBen 13y ago
Or just UK orientated news for ex-pats like myself. When I worked at BBC News we split the site into "UKFS" (uk facing site) and "IFS" (international facing site) but let readers pick via cookie which they wanted. Since
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by dotBen 13y ago
The Guardian as a UK-orientated news entity is/was on the death march. When they re-tooled their printing press a few years ago they said quite openly it would be the last printing press they would ever buy. Guardian has been making a
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by dotBen 13y ago
Also proof of why you need to title your submissions carefully... this same story, re-titled, made it to #1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6123535
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by dotBen 13y ago
This is a poor re-written title. This story is about how every day for up to ten minutes near the London Stock Exchange, someone blocks signals from the GPS network.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Because the beneficiary of the 911 provider isn't likely to be you, it's the person who needs the emergency who probably can't come to the phone. If someone needs to call 911 for me, I want to know it's regulated and up
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by dotBen 13y ago
This year's Le Web London was enjoyed the theme "The Sharing Economy". We showcased something like 15+ startups that are innovating in this space -- and even then we never claimed it was a brand new idea we had created, more
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by dotBen 13y ago
Yes, I hope they hash the secrets (and I guess someone could monitor the network traffic from the client to tell) . Also, if someone did have the master list of hashed secrets, they might still be able to manipulate their own client to sen

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